The San Francisco Citizen

Are you ready for this? It’s the “AVP Crocs Tour San Francisco presented by Fuze Beverage, Part of the AVP Crocs Cup Shootout presented by Bud Light“!

Per the AVP, Piers 30 and 32 “will be rocking” Friday Through Sunday, courtesy to the sponsorship of those horrible Crocs shoes. Check out this earth-toned pair recently abandoned in Golden Gate Park during Power to the Peaceful 2008. Click for the full horror: 

Anywho, check the schedule and then get your tickets. 

Of course they hit you with a $23.50 ”order processing fee” for a pair of three-session Front Row Courtside tickets, but you’re rich because you live in San Francisco. Right?

C’mon you richers, you want to see Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser, fresh from winning gold at the Genocide Olympics in Beijing, China, don’t you? Watching this is probably much better than playing Hooverball with a medicine ball in the park.

Schedule:

Friday, September 12th: SESSION 1 10:30 AM - 8:30 PM (12 total matches on 2 courts)

Saturday, September 13th: SESSION 2 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM (12 total matches on 2 courts)

Sunday, September 14th: SESSION 3 11:15 AM - 5:00 PM (4 total matches on center court: men’s and women’s finals)

Will this sport’s “Perv Factor” (its popularity due to the competitor’s sex appeal) fill the stands in San Francisco? Only Time Will Tell.

See you there!*

(* not really)

As promised, the Beijing Olympics has cheerleaders, and plenty. But sadly, the expected “sunshine boys” are nowhere to be seen, per the Huffington Post’s Ph.D on the scene:

What is interesting is that in last year’s test events, there were boy cheerleaders who were called yangguang nanhai (sunshine boys). They were received well by the audiences. This year, for whatever reason, only girl cheerleaders will be there.

HuffPo’s Dr. Hongmei Li has all the deets here. However, Tanya Enberg is not onboard this train:

What is unnecessary and rather bizarre is that women’s volleyball has scantily dressed female cheerleaders excitedly hopping about and wiggling…

Unnecessary? Bizarre? As always, you make the call. Click to expand:

They wouldn’t leave poor Kobe alone:

Kobe Bryant was there Monday morning. Famous as an NBA star and infamous as a womanizer, Bryant was pursued by a flock of barefoot, bikini-wearing, off-duty cheerleaders as he left the stadium.

Is this some kind of hoedown on the basketball court?

Via the awesome photostream of kk+

Extended coverage, after the jump

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